Sprint: AT&T and T-Mobile Merger Would Create Duopoly
"AT&T and T-Mobile's GSM networks almost entirely overlap. "
They would have to divest some spectrum that they aren't even using to T-Mobile and would be forced to ink a decent roaming agreement for the future.
Making #4 stronger is a way better deal for the American people then christening a duopoly.
1. give up spectrum (key)
2. roaming deal on a wholesale level
3. $3b dollars.
i think it should go through .
CellStudent said:
What needs to happen is for this deal to get blocked, because the break-up clause forces AT&T to make some serious concessions if they can't get regulatory approval.
I vote that the FCC give the merger a "poison pill" approval. Approve the merger so that the anti government factions cannot complain, but require so much divestiture of customers, spectrum, and network that AT&T cannot possibly countenance paying $39 billion for T-Mobile and has to pay the break up fee.
AJ
nextel18 said:
that doesnt make sense.
Yes, it does. If the FCC blocks the merger, plenty will point to that as needless government interference in the so called free market, and the FCC may take some political heat. But if the FCC provisionally approves the merger yet places so many conditions upon it that AT&T has little choice but to walk away, then AT&T bears the brunt of responsibility.
AJ
nextel18 said:
that doesnt make sense.
It makes perfect sense, unless you're pre-disposed to wanting the deal to go through...
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